2.6.38-rc7-git4: Reported regressions from 2.6.37
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-06 12:18:53
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This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.37, for which there are no fixes in the mainline known to the tracking team. If any of them have been fixed already, please let us know. If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.37, please let us know either and we'll add them to the list. Also, please let us know if any of the entries below are invalid. Each entry from the list will be sent additionally in an automatic reply to this message with CCs to the people involved in reporting and handling the issue. Listed regressions statistics: Date Total Pending Unresolved ---------------------------------------- 2011-03-06 70 27 26 2011-02-21 51 18 17 2011-02-12 39 20 18 2011-02-03 19 11 7 Unresolved regressions ---------------------- Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30472 Subject : 2.6.38-post-rc7 with radeon kms: reproducably locks up hard when using desktop cube of kwin Submitter : Martin Steigerwald [off-list ref] Date : 2011-03-05 15:10:24 (2 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129933425306804&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30462 Subject : High cpu usage when someone sends many ipv6 udp packages Submitter : Ernst Sjöstrand [off-list ref] Date : 2011-03-05 01:10 (2 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30142 Subject : Kernel Oops after hibernation Submitter : Willi Mann [off-list ref] Date : 2011-03-01 08:12 (6 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30072 Subject : USB-to-serial problems in 2.6.37.1+ (pl2303) Submitter : [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-28 12:39 (7 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30062 Subject : Huge amounts of "HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for /dev/sr0" messages during boot Submitter : Bernd Eggink [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-28 10:52 (7 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30032 Subject : r8169: 60 seconds delay when resuming from suspend Submitter : Guillaume Ayoub [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-27 16:52 (8 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29992 Subject : boot hang 2.6.37.1 regression w/ intel_idle and CONFIG_NO_HZ=n - asus p7p55d le Submitter : De Ganseman Amaury [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-27 10:38 (8 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29952 Subject : btrfs as root filesystems hangs on mount after d863b50ab01333659314c2034890cb76d9fdc3c7 Submitter : Asbjørn Sannes [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-26 15:59 (9 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/d863b50ab01333659314c2034890cb76d9fdc3c7 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29902 Subject : System suspend failed after 1-2 successful resumes Submitter : Alex Terekhov [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-25 22:24 (10 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29852 Subject : 2.6.38-rc5: nfsd: page allocation failure. spinlock trylock failure on UP Submitter : Alexander Beregalov [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-21 20:33 (14 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129832042402668&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29812 Subject : Brightness levels too low on Dell Inspiron 13" Intel HD 4 Series Submitter : Niklas Schnelle [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-24 10:24 (11 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/951f3512dba5bd44cda3e5ee22b4b522e4bb09fb Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29672 Subject : [regression][ALSA][hda-conexant][2.6.38-rcX] external microphone sound too quiet Submitter : Shawn Starr [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-19 6:02 (16 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129809536502092&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29312 Subject : Unmounting fails even after the underlying device is long gone Submitter : Bart Van Assche [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-17 19:20 (18 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29252 Subject : IPv6 doesn't work in a kvm guest. Submitter : Kusanagi Kouichi [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-16 13:03 (19 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29022 Subject : [REGRESSION? 2.6.38-rc4] nouveau NV50/NVA8 screen freeze Submitter : Marc Koschewski [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-13 12:29 (22 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28882 Subject : Screen corruption and GPU hangs Submitter : Ko Mi [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-11 18:17 (24 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28842 Subject : 2.6.38-rc3 regression ipv6 TFTP download with curl failing in getpeername? Submitter : Eric W. Biederman [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-08 9:41 (27 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129715811421534&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28642 Subject : ACPI broken on DELL Latitude E6410 in 2.6.38-rc3 Submitter : Adam Kovari [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-08 22:22 (27 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28562 Subject : [BUG] usb problems in .38-rc3+ Submitter : Ed Tomlinson [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-05 19:17 (30 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129693391417607&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28522 Subject : Unable to mount FAT-formatted floppy on /dev/fd0, plus WARN_ON when using /dev/fd0u1440 Submitter : Alex Villacis Lasso [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-07 17:21 (28 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28452 Subject : 2.6.38-rc3 regression on parisc: segfaults Submitter : Meelis Roos [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-01 22:00 (34 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129659763426600&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28432 Subject : khugepaged: gets stuck when writing to USB flash, 2.6.38-rc2 Submitter : Jindřich Makovička [off-list ref] Date : 2011-01-31 19:28 (35 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129650210516627&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28422 Subject : kref and apparmor panic in 2.6.38-rc2. Submitter : Tao Ma [off-list ref] Date : 2011-01-31 10:06 (35 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129646840303149&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28262 Subject : Slow resume from suspend/hibernate on Dell Inspiron M301Z Submitter : Luca Ferretti [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-05 12:37 (30 days old) Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28102 Subject : New display errors in 2.6.38-rc2-00175-g6fb1b30 Submitter : Nico Schottelius [off-list ref] Date : 2011-01-28 20:29 (38 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129624657425949&w=2 Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27022 Subject : [REPORT] BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, init/1 Submitter : Santosh Shilimkar [off-list ref] Date : 2011-01-10 15:33 (56 days old) Message-ID : [off-list ref] References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129467294808655&w=2 Regressions with patches ------------------------ Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29402 Subject : kernel panics while running ffsb scalability workloads on 2.6.38-rc1 through -rc5 Submitter : Eric Whitney [off-list ref] Date : 2011-02-18 21:47 (17 days old) Handled-By : Lukas Czerner [off-list ref] Patch : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=49642 For details, please visit the bug entries and follow the links given in references. As you can see, there is a Bugzilla entry for each of the listed regressions. There also is a Bugzilla entry used for tracking the regressions from 2.6.37, unresolved as well as resolved, at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27352 Please let the tracking team know if there are any Bugzilla entries that should be added to the list in there. Thanks!